| FOURSEASONS | Group of violin concertii by Antonio Vivaldi, published in 1725 (4,7) |
| FOUR | The _ Seasons, group of violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi (4) |
| ANTONIOVIVALDI | Italian Baroque composer noted for his group of violin concertos The Four Seasons (7,7) |
| MARKETDRAYTON | Town in north Shropshire where Clive of India was born in 1725 (6,7) |
| CASANOVA | Giacomo, adventurer and author born in Venice in 1725 (8) |
| SEASONS | The Four ___; set of violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi that was recorded by Nigel Kennedy in 1989 a |
| SEASON | Any one of the four divisions of the year celebrated in violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi (6) |
| GRISELDA | Opera by Antonio Vivaldi based on a story in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (8) |
| THREEGRACES | The ?, sculpture by Antonio Canova commissioned by the 6th Duke of Bedford for Woburn Abbey (5,6) |
| ILTROVATORE | Opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on a play by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez (2,9) |
| DANCE | 1957 George Balanchine ballet set to music by Antonio Vivaldi (6,5) |
| SQUARE | 1957 George Balanchine ballet set to music by Antonio Vivaldi (6,5) |
| PUSSINBOOTS | *Swashbuckling feline voiced by Antonio Banderas |
| BOYAR | Member of the old aristocracy of Russia ranking just below a prince, abolished by the reforms of Peter the Great (1672-1725) |
| PRIEST | The Red ___ , nickname for composer Antonio Vivaldi allegedly because of his hair (6) |
| ROSSO | Il Prete ___, nickname of Antonio Vivaldi (5) |
| MANDARINCONCERTO | 1725 Vivaldi work, in a first language? |
| VENICE | Where was composer Antonio Vivaldi born? (6) |
| BYROM | Poet who, in his satire of 1725, applied the names "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to the two rival composers Handel and Bononcini (5) |
| PETERTHEGREAT | Ruler of Russia, 1682-1725 (grade: A) |
